DENVER • The Denver Nuggets’ starting five is set, but there’s still some interesting questions to answer ahead of the start of the season.

Jamal Murray: Can the regular season look like your postseasons?

The highest-scoring regular season of Murray’s career — 21.2 points in 2020-21 — is lower than his lowest postseason scoring average of 21.3 points back in the 2019 playoffs. Murray has averaged at least 26 points in each of the last two playoff runs, while also averaging more points and assists per game. Part of that is the extra five or so minutes he plays in the postseason, but there should be ample opportunity for Murray to be a 25-5-5 guy this year. That would likely get him an invitation to the All-star Game and even bigger payday in the offseason. When Murray’s acting as a scorer and a playmaker, the Nuggets offense becomes even more unstoppable.

Kentavious Caldwell-pope: Can you have another career year on 3 and D?

KCP’S first season in Denver produced career-best marks in a couple of crucial categories. He made the most of Nikola Jokic’s ability to get him the ball from anywhere on the court by shooting a career-best 42.3 percent from 3-point range on more than four attempts per game. His 1.5 steals per game, another high mark in his 10-year career, were just as important on the other end. The role will look largely the same this season with the Nuggets relying on him to provide spacing with his shooting ability and guard the opponents’ top perimeter threat. It’s sneaky important he can have a similarly productive second season with the Nuggets.

Michael Porter Jr.: What was your takeaway from the Finals?

Porter probably wants another shot on basketball’s biggest stage, but he can be better off following his first trip. His best 3-point shooting performance of the Finals was a 2-for-11 outing in Game 1. He finished the five-game series 4 for 28 from 3. Though the shooting was a struggle – his last make was a massive one that put the Nuggets up 3 late in the third quarter – he made a positive impact when he continued to rebound, defend and get easy buckets off of cuts and offensive rebounds during the struggles. A continuation of that trend will be especially important with Bruce Brown out of the picture.

Aaron Gordon: How ya’ feeling?

No one had more difficult assignments during Denver’s playoff run. It started with Karl-anthony Towns and some Anthony Edwards and continued with the likes of Kevin Durant, LEBron James and Jimmy Butler. Gordon, aka the most interesting man on the Nuggets, deserved every vacation abroad this offseason. While he has plenty of time to prepare for what the team hopes is another demanding playoff run, it’s important he starts the season fresh. He seems to have everything else figured out about his role with this team.

Nikola Jokic: Where did you get better this offseason?

Somehow, some way Jokic manages to get just a little bit better every offseason. Last year, Jokic used Murray and Porter’s respective returns to shoot 63.2% from the field and average 9.8 assists per game, both career highs. One possible area for improvement comes from 3. While his 38.3% mark is the third best of his career, his 2.2 attempts per game is the lowest since his second NBA season. Teams still seem willing to live with Jokic shooting 3s, so shooting a similar percentage on closer to four or five attempts per game would be an easy way for Jokic to maintain his offensive output and save some energy for what’s expected to be another long and demanding season.